Election Sketch: Why the Scots are so keen to register a massive protest vote against Labour

Labour voters in Douglas Alexander’s seat are furious at being treated as “a second-class nation” and “bullied” during the referendum.

In principle, a Labour-SNP Government would have legitimacy in England. In practice, however, there’s a danger that it would not.

Where will voters south of the border believe it resides if, after Thursday, the SNP imposes its will on a Tory-voting England by voting on English business?

Ryan Bourne: When Clegg claimed over two in five families are vulnerable. And other thoughts on this election campaign

Plus: The OBR isn’t needed to audit manifestos. The SNP’s sleight-of-hand on austerity. A lack of debate on healthcare. And: don’t make promises you can’t keep.

Henry Hill: Welsh Labour coy on pact with Plaid

Also: Northern Irish Labour denounce bar on contesting elections; SNP suspend members who harassed Murphy; Robinson calls for pan-UK unionist fightback.

Election Sketch: Mundell has a better chance than most of surviving the SNP tsunami

The threat posed by Scottish Nationalists to the Union has had the beneficial consequence of reinvigorating the Scottish Conservatives.

Rebecca Coulson: Two million jobs – two million real lives improving – versus the easy words of anti-austerity

The people slinging unsubstantiated words at us are the comfortably guilty, not the beneficiaries of the jobs miracle.

The Lib Dems consolidate their position as party members’ preferred coalition partner

The need to fight separately in the campaign has not hardened Tory hearts against a second coalition with Nick Clegg’s party.

If he has a chance of forming a government on Friday, Cameron should stay on

If the Conservatives have won more votes and seats, and their Commons support looks bigger than Labour’s, it would be a counsel of despair to hand over to Miliband.

Lord Flight: In Scotland, the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberals should merge into a single Unionist Party

And at Westminster these parties should agree that none of them will do deals with the SNP in order to secure Commons majorities.

UKIP’s limp campaign is a victim of mismanaged expectations

The inflated hopes engendered by their 2014 annus mirabilis look set to sour a perfectly respectable result for the People’s Army.

Lord Ashcroft: My final round of marginals polling

The last ten surveys contain mixed news for all parties and some noteworthy results.

Henry Hill: Tories rule out pact with Nationalists in Holyrood

Also: Calls for referendum as NI Assembly votes down gay marriage by two votes; and Jones and Davidson join the debate on EVEL.

Lord Ashcroft: The Conservatives lead by six points in this week’s Ashcroft National Poll

Plus: This week’s focus groups in Glasgow, Paisley and Edinburgh; and who would play whom in Nicola Sturgeon: The Movie?

The DUP want to have their constitutional cake and eat it

Nigel Dodds’ latter-day conversion to the legitimacy of the SNP coincides with a threat to the influence of DUP MPs.

Adrian Hilton: Equity’s election message – “Don’t vote Conservative, you moron.”

The Union’s election postcard reads like a Labour/SNP press release. And we have an appearance from Sam West (Alleyn’s, Lady Margaret Hall Oxford, Socialist Alliance).